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Jeff Milchen

@jmilchen.bsky.social
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Advocate for inclusive democracy and civil rights through nonprofit leadership, communications, and everyday actions. Founder of the American Independent Business Alliance and Reclaim Democracy! Anti-fascist.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump’s Renaming of Lake Ontario Violates Catholic Social Teaching Catholic social teaching protects the right of Indigenous peoples to keep their own names for their own places. mikefoxcatechist.substack.com/p/trumps-ren...
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Trump’s Renaming of Lake Ontario Violates Catholic Social Teaching
Catholic social teaching protects the right of Indigenous peoples to keep their own names for their own places.
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Where's the Beef? If you're interested in the creative process, the philosophy behind my work, and behind-the-scenes sketches, videos, and commentary, I invite you to subscribe to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Mothership, End Citizens United, and Progressive Turnout Project—all of whom relentlessly pummel my phone because their data-scraping flagged me as a Dem donor—are fascist saboteurs. What else would you call entities that drain >80% of donations intended for Democrats?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Miss Candy had outfitted the Blue Angels for 43 years. The Navy was paying her $127,000 per year for the contract. Without telling her, the Trump regime gave the contract to a white man 900 miles away and paid him almost triple. Original post: www.instagram.com/reel/Db8Yh5b...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It is a sign of the total failure of our constitutional order that, a mere six years after we were all desperately praying for a miraculous scientific breakthrough to end the worst global pandemic in a century, that the President of the United States can do what he did today & face no consequences.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 06/08/2026
“Officers subsequently checked the various locations where the Flock cameras were placed and found that the poles were cut down near the base. Officers located the poles nearby in the weeds, but the cameras had been removed.”
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Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras
The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as the...
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 23/07/2026
Cheltenham is closing its Citizens Bank accounts totaling about $9 million after months of organizing from residents concerned about the bank's business with companies running detention centers.
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Cheltenham to pull millions from Citizens Bank over immigrant detention facilities
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
DISGUSTING—META used AI software to identify workers with medical conditions for layoffs. 26 former employees have ‌filed ⁠a ⁠lawsuit accusing META of using AI targeted ⁠people with disabilities, or who took ⁠medical leave, ⁠in selecting people for mass layoffs.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Sums it up nicely
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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Trump's abuse of power to free a serial rapist is among the most under-reported stories of our time. This should be as widely known as the Epstein/Trump Files.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There are four key TV archives in the US: ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. This is the footage filmmakers use to tell our history. If Paramount buys Warner Brothers, two of those archives - including 45 years of CNN footage- will be controlled by one company and likely one person, Bari Weiss.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
this is why AI terrifies me. sure, it can be a tool to help people do their jobs. but stupid, lazy people who operate in bad faith and who have the power to ruin people’s lives will outsource their basic functions to it without any skepticism.
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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
An important thread re both immigrant justice and independent media from a person well worth following.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 19/05/2026
Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.
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Patricia @pjs501.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A cartoon showing multiple FBI agents with cameras and notepads circled around a group of sea shells. Yellow crime scene tape circles the group. While outside the circle being ignored by the FBI are the bloody bodies of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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Bad Wolf @bad-wolfz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
It’s too easy for oligarchs like Jeff Bezos to exploit workers to enrich themselves. It’s time we say enough and make them pay their fair share #boycott
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning; www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...
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George Washington’s Woke Vaccines
What the Founders would have thought about Pete Hegseth lifting the requirement that service members get the flu vaccine.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The #BraveOfUS stand up and confront power and that's exactly what @vetsaboutface.bsky.social is doing with 150 veterans and active duty military in the Capitol rotunda right now to demand Congress end this criminal war on Iran.
Rotunda of the US Capitol where people are standing, many in military camouflage, holding signs that read "End the War on Iran" among other messages.
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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
For ideological reasons, I moved from Substack to beehiiv and couldn’t be happier. I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants to make a move. Leaving Substack is like planting a tree. The best day to do it was years ago. The second best day is today.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space. And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history
A black and white photo of Katherine Johnson, the "Hidden Figure" that sent man into spaceA photo of Vanessa Wyche, director of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil service member
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start. The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.
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Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost
“The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
NEW: Even by national standards, Pennsylvania has a sky-high rate of people serving life without parole. That's bc it mandates anyone convicted of 2nd-degree murder serve that sentence. The state supreme court just declared that to be cruel—a major ruling written by the Dem chief justice.
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Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Reins in Life Sentences for Felony Murder - Bolts
The court’s ruling could create a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 people who were automatically sentenced to life without parole for murders they themselves didn't commit.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.
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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Important reporting by @coloradotimesrecorder.com on ICE facilities not considered official detention centers, but where people can be abducted and imprisoned for up to 3 days...in rooms with with no bed or toilet coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/excl... #AbolishICE
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EXCLUSIVE: ICE Locks Thousands, Including Kids, in 170 'Hold Rooms’ Nationwide. Here's Where They Are.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency operates a network of 170 unofficial detention sites around the country, called “hold rooms,” according to agency data obtained via the Freedom of....
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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In VT, ICE instigated a chase causing multiple wrecks, abducted people not on a warrant, caused day-long chaos...based on ICE claiming to ID a man >50 yards away. vtdigger.org/2026/03/24/i... @interruptcrim.bsky.social @immjustice.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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ICE now says man they sought in South Burlington raid was not in fleeing vehicle - VTDigger
An ICE officer wrote in a court filing Tuesday, “I no longer believe” that Deyvi Daniel Corona-Sanchez “was an occupant of the Toyota Camry I observed on March 11, 2026.”
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026
justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 19/03/2026
Here's something I wrote in December about how immigration judges aren't real judges--a problem that (like many other problems) the Trump administration is making worse ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump Has Never Been Clearer About What an Immigration Judge’s Real Job Is
The president doesn’t want immigration judges who handle cases by the book. He wants immigration judges who will rubber-stamp his mass deportations agenda.
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Abdelilah Skhir @abskhir.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is a REALLY big deal. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: “…we are on the ground floor with this day in and day out — looking in the eyes of these folks that, yes, came here inappropriately. But some came here inappropriately only to do better for themselves and their family.”
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Florida Sheriffs rebel against Trump's, DeSantis' mass deportation efforts • Florida Phoenix
Florida Republican sheriffs want President Donald Trump to end mass deportations of undocumented immigrants who haven’t committed crimes, a striking shift from law enforcement in the nation’s most agg...
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The story of assaults on ICE officers, used to justify masks, is a complete lie www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
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Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/03/2026
The March 15, 2025, killing of Ruben Ray Martinez drew almost no public attention. But Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Trump’s second term. wapo.st/4lbpGYC
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Would just remind folks that a GSA employee named Jeff Neely went to federal prison for throwing lavish parties during a 2010 government conference, then claiming it was all business. He was sentenced to 90 days. You can absolutely imprison dipshits for flamboyantly wasting taxpayer dollars.
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Trump Labor Secretary Caught Using Govt Funds for Her Birthday Party
The birthday party was “renamed” in order to avoid greater scrutiny about using public funds.
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 20/02/2026
Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.
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Charles Martin-Shields @charlesmartinshields.com · 16/02/2026
I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 04/02/2026
A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
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Minneapolis Council committee delays liquor licenses for 2 hotels over hosting federal agents
The City Council will hold a public hearing on the liquor licenses for the Canopy by Hilton in the Mill District and Depot Renaissance Hotel.
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